Screen grabs from "Maisey"

At the end of February I shot a short film over two days, directed by Tommy Fitzgerald. "Maisey" is a dark drama about a fallout of a relationship, the bitterness and raw consequences for a child who gets sorely neglected as those around her lose sight of what truly matters. Starring Tim McDonnell and Maura Foley as the father and mother of Maisey, played beautifully by five year old Avalilly Durkin. Maura's sister is played by Allison Ryan, her first time infront of the camera, not that you would know it.   Shot on the RED MX with Michael Gilbert on focus, Susan Gorzalczynska as 2nd assistant camera, Niall Cutler gaffing, JJ Sullivan as key grip and Dylan Knapp downloading. 

It's seldom you can say that a job was as relaxed as "Maisey" was, although we've all worked together before, this was a new dynamic and hand on heart was one of the most enjoyable jobs I've had as a cinematographer. 

Makeup by Susan Kenny, production design by Aoife Murray, costume by Tania Persechini, 1st Ad Kev Hannigan, sound recordist Mick Duncan. Produced by Richard Bolger.

Edited by Conor Fitzpatrick, and soon to be graded by the man himself Ian "debreezer" de Bri. 

Raw footage, ungraded. 

Screen grabs from "Bridge Station"

I thought that I should include some of the graded, polished and finalised screen grabs from the short "Bridge Station", originally named rail station, that I shot in March of 2013. I shan't reiterate all the thanks and such as I have already done so in relation to this short in a previous post, but you know who you are, and by jaysus the craic was mighty on that gig!! 

Colour grade by Ian De Bri, as always... 

Screen grabs from "Stalker"

In February 2012, on the back of having worked with Eoin Macken on his horror feature "The Inside" and subsequently "Charlie Casanova", Eoin was asked to shoot Mark O'Connor's third feature film "Stalker". It was to be a two camera set up, both Canon 5D mark ii's with myself and mac operating over an eleven day shoot. I had the pleasure of working with some incredible people, namely though certainly not limited to: Mark O'Connor, TJ O'Grady Peyton, Jonny Connors, Barry Keoghan, Peter Coonan, Mary Murray, Katy Monahan, Christian Byrne, Brian Beamish to name but a few! actors and crew alike, and got to DP a segment of the film for two days while Eoin had other commitments. The film has received mixed reviews, just as "Charlie Casanova" did, on which it was inspired, yet failed to get acceptance at festivals due to its political and somewhat brash nature and subject matter. Finally, last night it premiered at movies@dundrum, with the likes of Jim Sheridan, Sinead O'Connor and Damien Dempsey in attendance... Not a bad aul start. So, with that here are a few screen grabs from my section of the film.